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Battle-tested guides for Docker homelabs. Written after hours of debugging so you don’t have to.

The Complete Mediastack

Fully automated media server — movies, TV, music, and subtitles. VPN-protected downloads, hardlinks, quality profiles, and request management.

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Pangolin + CrowdSec + Authentik

Complete reverse proxy stack with Web Application Firewall and Single Sign-On. From DNS records to OIDC role mapping.

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Pi-hole + Unbound

Network-wide ad blocking with a private recursive DNS resolver. No third-party DNS provider sees your traffic.

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Jellyfin

Open-source media server alongside Plex. Read-only library access, hardware transcoding, and Pangolin reverse proxy setup.

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Homepage Dashboard

A YAML-driven start page for your homelab. Live widgets pulled from Sonarr/Radarr/qBit APIs, Docker health dots, bookmarks, and resource graphs.

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Grafana + Prometheus + Loki

The observability trinity: metrics from Prometheus, logs from Loki, Grafana as the single pane of glass. Alert rules, dashboards, and Alertmanager routing.

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Wazuh + Suricata

A homelab SIEM. Wazuh indexer + manager + dashboard ingest host telemetry and Suricata network IDS alerts into one correlated view.

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